tablings
plural of tabling
• BLASTing, batlings, blasting, stabling
Source: Wiktionary
Ta"bling, n.
1. A forming into tables; a setting down in order.
2. (Carp.)
Definition: The letting of one timber into another by alternate scores or projections, as in shipbuilding.
3. (Naut.)
Definition: A broad hem on the edge of a sail. Totten.
4. Board; support. [Obs.] Trence in English (1614).
5. Act of playing at tables. See Table, n., 10. [Obs.] Tabling house, a gambling house. [Obs.] Northbrooke.
Ta"ble, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tableed; p. pr. & vb. n. Tableing.]
1. To form into a table or catalogue; to tabulate; as, to table fines.
2. To delineate, as on a table; to represent, as in a picture. [Obs.] Tabled and pictured in the chambers of meditation. Bacon.
3. To supply with food; to feed. [Obs.] Milton.
4. (Carp.)
Definition: To insert, as one piece of timber into another, by alternate scores or projections from the middle, to prevent slipping; to scarf.
5. To lay or place on a table, as money. Carlyle.
6. In parliamentary usage, to lay on the table; to postpone, by a formal vote, the consideration of (a bill, motion, or the like) till called for, or indefinitely.
7. To enter upon the docket; as, to table charges against some one.
8. (Naut.)
Definition: To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the boltrope.
Ta"ble, v. i.
Definition: To live at the table of another; to board; to eat. [Obs.] "He . . . was driven from the society of men to table with the beasts." South.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 February 2025
(noun) an advantageous purchase; “she got a bargain at the auction”; “the stock was a real buy at that price”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
